linux-kernel - Re: fs: NULL deref in atime_needs

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Date:	Sat, 20 Feb 2016 03:21:27 +0000
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Cc:	Mickaël Salaün <mic@...ikod.net>,
	"linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	syzkaller <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>,
	Kostya Serebryany <kcc@...gle.com>,
	Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: fs: NULL deref in atime_needs_update

On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 08:32:10PM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> > BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000050

NULL inode->i_sb, by the look of the offset, but I really don't understand
where the hell is that code doing (or how is that instruction going to
generate dereferencing of 0x50, for that matter).

> I've hit another GPF in atime_needs_update, but this time from SyS_openat:
> 
> kasan: GPF could be caused by NULL-ptr deref or user memory
> accessgeneral protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC KASAN
> Modules linked in:
> CPU: 0 PID: 20147 Comm: syz-executor Not tainted 4.5.0-rc4+ #329
> Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
> task: ffff88005f154740 ti: ffff88005f048000 task.ti: ffff88005f048000
> RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81818b5d>]  [<ffffffff81818b5d>]
> atime_needs_update+0x2d/0x460
> RSP: 0018:ffff88005f04fa48  EFLAGS: 00010203
> RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff88005f04fd88
> RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 000000000000000c
> RBP: ffff88005f04fa70 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
> R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff88005f04fd98
> R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff88005f04fd98 R15: ffff88005f04fd78
> FS:  00007f612639b700(0000) GS:ffff88003ec00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
> CR2: 000000002003ef84 CR3: 000000006073e000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
> Stack:
>  ffff88005f04fd40 ffff88005f04fe08 0000000000000000 ffff88005f04fd98
>  ffff88005f04fd78 ffff88005f04fab8 ffffffff817e5572 ffff88005f04fd78
>  ffff88002bcf02f8 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 ffff88002bcf02f8
> Call Trace:
>  [<     inline     >] get_link fs/namei.c:1006
>  [<ffffffff817e5572>] trailing_symlink+0x142/0x760 fs/namei.c:2094
>  [<ffffffff817ec531>] path_openat+0xbc1/0x5e30 fs/namei.c:3389
>  [<ffffffff817f4fde>] do_filp_open+0x18e/0x250 fs/namei.c:3421
>  [<ffffffff817b970c>] do_sys_open+0x1fc/0x420 fs/open.c:1022
>  [<     inline     >] SYSC_openat fs/open.c:1049
>  [<ffffffff817b99a0>] SyS_openat+0x30/0x40 fs/open.c:1043
>  [<ffffffff86662636>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x16/0x7a
> arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:185
> Code: 89 e5 41 57 41 56 41 55 41 54 49 89 fc 53 48 89 f3 e8 c8 32 d5
> ff 48 8d 7b 0c 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <0f>
> b6 14 02 48 89 f8 83 e0 07 83 c0 03 38 d0 7c 08 84 d2 0f 85
> RIP  [<ffffffff81818b5d>] atime_needs_update+0x2d/0x460 fs/inode.c:1611
>  RSP <ffff88005f04fa48>

What was the fault address here and what config are you using for those
builds?